Obama Was Here!

Well, “here” meaning Upstate New York. His goal? For the U.S. to have the highest proportion of college grads again by 2020. A snippet:

Today, my administration is releasing our strategy to foster new jobs, new businesses, and new industries by laying the groundwork and the ground rules to best tap our innovative potential. This work began with the recovery plan, which devoted well over $100 billion to innovation, from high-tech classrooms to health information technology, from more energy-efficient homes to more fuel-efficient cars, from building a smart electricity grid to laying down high-speed rail lines. But it does not end there. For this strategy is about far more than recovery; it is about sustained growth and widely-shared prosperity. And it is rooted in a simple idea, that if government does its modest part, there is no stopping the most powerful and generative economic force the world has ever known: the American people.

Click here for full speech of his text and the Daily News’ take on the rather awkward shout-outs at the beginning of the speech. Why awkward? Well, it seems the administration doesn’t want Governor Paterson to run for re-election next year…